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Truckloads of cement, steel and gravel that Israel allowed into Gaza on Oct. 14 with great fanfare remain locked in warehouses, unavailable to thousands of families desperate to fix their homes, but the Hamas is able to rebuild their radio station.

"Complicated mechanisms are being created to manoeuvre around the problem, not address it," said Tartir, programme director of Al Shabaka. "This means more money is wasted and Palestinians' dependency status is entrenched."

Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet criticise mainstream commentary on Haiti for failing to look beyond the earthquake and ask where Haiti's poverty is rooted. They depict the historial passage of political and economical explotation and individual greed

France, Denmark and Indonesia offered Wednesday to contribute troops to the joint United Nations-African Union mission for Darfur, as observers predicted the UN would have trouble recruiting troops from already overstretched military forces.